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Two-step   /tu-stɛp/   Listen
Two-step

verb
1.
Dance the two-step.






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"Two-step" Quotes from Famous Books



... to shock you. I don't really want any more. Shall we dance? Ilse! Why don't you seize Mr. Brisson and make him two-step?" ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... a short colloquy ensued, which ended in the latter shuffling off in the direction of the other revellers. Such is the buoyancy of youth that a moment later he was dancing a two-step with every appearance of careless enjoyment. The future, with its storms, seemed to ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse

... got several dozen candles and illuminated the place. Then we sent out for a pianist and some violinists, and got up a scratch orchestra. We then cleared away the tables and benches and turned the place into a dance-hall. The orchestra struck up a lively two-step, and great burly chaps chose their equally burly partners, and (p. 204) started off in the dance with such gusto that the place was filled with the sounds of dissipation. This attracted more men from outside, and finally ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... advent of the leisure class will be obliterated, and it will be no longer bad form for the dry-goods clerk to dance with the grocery clerk's wife at the Charity Ball. But, come what may, we shall always know that there was a time in the social history of our town when we danced the two-step as they dance it in Tiffin, Ohio, and wore knee-breeches and plaid stockings, and quit work at four o'clock. Those were great days—"the glory that was Greece, the ...
— In Our Town • William Allen White



Words linked to "Two-step" :   ballroom dance, trip the light fantastic, ballroom dancing, trip the light fantastic toe, dance



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